MosaLingua: MosaLingua is a method for learning languages on a smartphone (iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and Android). In order to commit the information to your long-term memory, you need to space out your review sessions. The review schedule will differ for each person and each concept to be memorized.

TurboScan: TurboScan turns your phone into a multipage scanner for documents, receipts, notes, whiteboards, and other text. With TurboScan, you can quickly scan your documents and store or email them as multipage PDF or JPEGYou have the ability to upload those files to the cloud.

Headspace: Guided mediations to reset your focus and de-stress your day. This is meditation for modern life – simple, scientifically-proven techniques, that you can use every day to experience a healthier and happier mind.

Automatic: Automatic connects your smartphone to your car with an always-in dongle (the dongle itself costs $99) that tracks the health of your ride, as well as notifies you about any problems, errors, and what they mean. It can also tell you precisely where you parked last time, and even notify friends and family in case of an accident.

SleepCycle (iphone) SleepBot (android): A bio-alarm clock that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you when you are in the lightest sleep phase. Sleep Cycle then uses a 30 minute alarm window that ends at your set alarm time and wakes you in your lightest sleep phase.

Tuesday Tech Tip, April 29, 2014

Tuesday, 29 April 2014 09:15

Internet Explorer is unsafe to use. We will apply the security patch as soon as it is available, but for now please use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to access the Internet.

If you have XP operating systems (WHICH YOU SHOULDN’T) they will most likely not be fixed because XP is an unsupported operating system.

My suggestion right now is to:

Get to a computer that has Firefox or Chrome and download the Chrome or Firefox install

Copy the install files onto a thumb drive and go to each computer and install it. (Time is of the essence.)

Make sure that one of those safe browsers are set as the default browser so that the computer doesn’t auto-launch IE.

We will do our best to get to each of you and make sure that your company is safe. We will most definitely push out the security patch as soon as it is invented. For now, be aware and be informed. Take precautions and report any unusual activity.

Hackers have uncovered the first bug that could put Windows XP users at serious risk, after Microsoft ceased support for the aging operating system less than three weeks ago.

On Saturday, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer versions 6 through 11 were at risk for so-called drive-by attacks from malicious websites. Windows XP is capable of running Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8.

This new remote code execution vulnerability, dubbed CVE-2014-1776, has the potential to give hackers the same user rights as the current user. That means a successful attacker who infects a PC running as administrator would have a wide variety of attack open to them such as installing more malware on the system, creating new user accounts, and changing or deleting data stored on the target PC. Most Windows users run their PCs under an administrator account.

These attacks aren't theoretical, either—security firm FireEye discovered these attacks being actively used in the wild. For these attacks to work, however, a user would have to visit a malicious website attempting to install the code. Microsoft says attacks could also come from "websites that accept or host user-provided content or advertisements" where an attacker could insert malicious code.

Microsoft has yet to decide whether it will issue an emergency patch in the coming days or wait for patch Tuesday on May 13 to repair supported versions of IE.